Ernest Hemingway

Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway

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Open Ended

Warm-Up: What does it mean to participate in a White Elephant Gift Exchange? Feel free to google or ask a friend.

Standard

LAFS.910.RL.1.1: Cite strong and thorough evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text

Essential Question

Make an inference about what the couple is talking about. Support your analysis with explicit and implicit details from the text.

White Elephant Gift

Open Ended

On your drawing app or a sheet of paper, draw the setting described in the first paragraph. We can do this as a class if you'd like.

Multiple Choice

Select the best definition for the term "White Elephant"

• a possession that is useless or troublesome, especially one that is expensive to maintain or difficult to dispose of.

• a heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal.

• an African wild horse with black-and-white stripes and an erect mane.

• A dark omen given at the beginning of a story

Open Ended

How would you describe the dialogue and characters so far? Explain.

Cite all of the words with a medical connotation

Analyze the subtext behind "They're lovely hills. They don't really look like white elephants"

Poll

Who is in control of the conversation?

• The man

• The girl (Jig)

Multiple Select

Select two pieces of evidence to support the idea that the man is manipulative.

• "It's really an awful simple operation, Jig"

• "If you don't want to you don't have to. I wouldn't have you do it if you didn't want to. But I know it's perfectly simple"

• "I'll love it"

• "I care about you"

Open Ended

Now that we have read more of the story, What do you think they could be talking about? How would you describe their style of communication? Cite evidence to support your response.

Circle the words with medical connotations

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Pick 1 question and use the 5 minutes to respond. <3 Click image to enlarge.

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Exit-Ticket: Based upon the information given to you, make an inference on how Hemingway feels about the link between communication and gender. Support your analysis on Hemingway's commentary with explicit and implicit information from the text.